BROWN-THROATED SLOTH ON THE JUNGLE FLOOR

(Bradypus variegates) Although they are quite slow in trees, three-toed sloths are agile swimmers. The offspring cling to their mother’s bellies for around 9 months or so. They cannot walk on all four limbs, and so they must use their front arms and claws to drag themselves across the rain forest floor. Only once ever seven day do they come to the forest floor to do their dirty business And on this day by a chance encounter this little guy posed for a picture on the Puntarenas Pacific Coast, Costa Rica